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Dead Reckoning: Tales of the Great Explorers 1800-1900
by (Editor: Helen Whybrow)
Product Group: Book
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company (2005-03-07)
ISBN: 0393326535
EAN: 9780393326536
Dewey Decimal #: 910.409034
Paperback: 564 pages
SKU: 91008000261
Condition: Very Good
Comments: 0393326535 New, never read, may have minor wear on cover.
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Product Description
In these 32 stories, we see a century very different from our own, and a world much more mysterious and frightening. The depth of isolation possible in the nineteenth century can scarcely be imagined now: these explorers were entirely on their own when it came to medical help, foraging for food when supplies ran out, navigating without instruments, crossing immense uncharted territory. The narratives that tell of such journeys are rich with thrilling adventure and desperate peril, self reliance and personal revelation, and the awe for a natural world we no longer know.
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